Rev.1: 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.---Jesus is the Alpha and Omega- the Almighty!
Daniel 11:33. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Bankruptcy: Cities First, Then The States

As we watch the slow collapse of
the nations of Europe under the heavy weight of leftist entitlement spending,
the reality of the destructive forces of socialist utopianism is all too
real. The United States has trailed Europe on its dire course, and only
now is the diabolical truth of a progressive agenda truly taking shape for
more than just the politically savvy to notice.

Before the current Obama
administration in the White House the socialist ideas of utopianism
were applied incrementally, slowly so as to not be noticed, yet steadily
enough to move this nation in the direction of Marxist communitarianism.
While full control of the federal government was granted to the democrats
between 2007 and 2011, the downward spiral towards collapse accelerated at
break-neck speed. Since the republicans gained control of the House of
Representatives, President Barack Obama has ignored the people’s attempt to
check his power, and has continued to fundamentally change this nation at the
foundational level through the courts, executive orders, and regulatory
agencies.

The Founding Fathers of the United
States were all too aware of the utopian imaginings of the statist mind. The
U.S. Constitution was written in such a manner to keep the leftist hounds at
bay, to keep this country a land of liberty, and to protect the sovereignty of
the individual States. The sovereignty, after all, is the key. It is the
sovereignty of the States that alone can stop the rising tyranny we now see
at the federal level. In the minds of the founders, as long as the
individuality of the States remained intact, the growth of the central
government would remain contained and tyranny would not be able to rear its
ugly head.

Though the States have original
authority, and hold all powers not delegated to the federal government by the
Constitution, there are also prohibitions to the States listed in the
Constitution. For the individual States to remain strong, and out of the way
of the necessary workings of the federal government, Article I, Section 10 of
the United States Constitution provided some prohibitions to the States that
disallowed the States from functions like making treaties, entering into
alliances, and matters of national defense. Among those prohibitions were
also those that disallowed the States from coining money, or going into debt.

Article I, Section 10 states that
no State shall emit Bills of Credit.

After the American Revolution all
of the colonies were in debt, and the federal government assumed that debt
under the federal umbrella. In return, for the purpose of protecting the
States from future economic ruin, the allowance to go into debt was taken
away by the Constitution. The bail-out of the States was only supposed to
happen once.

Cities, under the State
Constitutions, may issue bonds, and other bills of credit, but even debt at
the municipal level is a dangerous endeavor. In California, three cities have
now decided to declare bankruptcy, a trend that may become less extraordinary
as the weight of public employee pensions and the mismanagement of city
funds catches up to each of these cities. The lies that emerged when the City
of Bell was caught with its officials’ hands in the cookie jar seem to be
something that was not limited to just that city.

The real question is that if
bankruptcy becomes the only choice a State can make, what becomes of the
State? The State has already acted in an unconstitutional manner by going
into debt. Should the federal government, as it did over two hundred years
ago, bail out the States, or would the State’s inability to manage its own
finances force the State to lose its statehood and become a territory
existing under the complete control of the federal government as provided in
Article IV, Section 3 where the Congress is granted the power to “make all
needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States?”

The problem is, this has never
happened before because the Founding Fathers saw fit to not allow it to by
prohibiting the States from emitting bills of credit.

Just another problem we have
encountered because of our unwillingness to follow the U.S. Constitution.

Our insolence, if we don’t stop
the progressive wave of utopianism, could result ultimately in the collapse
of our nation. The bankruptcy of cities is only just the beginning.

Douglas V. Gibbs, Political
Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary, is a Radio Host
on KCAA 1050 AM on Saturdays and Sundays with his Constitution Speaker
program, as well as a longtime Internet radio host, conservative political
activist, writer and commentator. Doug is the founder of the award winning
Political Pistachio website, and a free lance newspaper columnist for the
Murrieta Patch, The Central Idaho Post and The Examiner. Doug is a member of
the “American Authors Association”, the “Committee of Concerned Journalists”
and “The Military Writers Society of America.” He received the Golden Anchor
Award for his patriotic commentary in 2008, and was a candidate for his local
city council in 2010. An active member of the Tea Party Movement, Doug mans a
Constitution Booth at Tea Party events, is a public speaker on the U.S.
Constitution, and teaches classes on the U.S. Constitution once a week in
Temecula, California. Doug is a family man, married 27 years to his high
school sweetheart. He is the father of two and has four grandchildren. Doug
is a proud United States Navy veteran. Doug can be reached at douglasvgibbs
[at] yahoo.com or constitutionspeaker [at] yahoo.com.

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